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The Tragedy of American Science
Author | : Clifford D. Conner |
Publsiher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781642592030 |
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A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People’s History of Science. Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this history has unfolded since the Second World War, addressing the corporatization and the militarization of science in the US. He examines the role of private profit considerations in determining the direction of scientific inquiry—and the ways those considerations have dangerously undermined the integrity of sciences impacting food, water, air, medicine, and the climate. In addition, he explores the relationship between scientific industries and the US military, discussing the innumerable financial and human scientific resources that have been diverted from other critical areas in order to further military aggrandizement and technological development. While the underlying problems may appear intractable, Conner compellingly argues that replacing the current science-for-profit system with a science-for-human-needs system is not an impossible utopian dream—and the first step to a better future is grappling with the mistakes of the past.
The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs
Author | : Gregory Paul |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2003-04-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0312310080 |
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Collects writings by experts in paleontology, from John Horner on dinosaur families to Robert Bakker on the latest wave of fossil discoveries.
American Science in an Age of Anxiety
Author | : Jessica Wang |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807867105 |
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No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists enjoyed unprecedented public visibility and political influence as a new elite whose expertise now seemed critical to America's future. But as the United States grew committed to Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and the ideology of anticommunism came to dominate American politics, scientists faced an increasingly vigorous regimen of security and loyalty clearances as well as the threat of intrusive investigations by the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities and other government bodies. This book is the first major study of American scientists' encounters with Cold War anticommunism in the decade after World War II. By examining cases of individual scientists subjected to loyalty and security investigations, the organizational response of the scientific community to political attacks, and the relationships between Cold War ideology and postwar science policy, Jessica Wang demonstrates the stifling effects of anticommunist ideology on the politics of science. She exposes the deep divisions over the Cold War within the scientific community and provides a complex story of hard choices, a community in crisis, and roads not taken.
Scientific American
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015024538178 |
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Louis Agassiz
Author | : Christoph Irmscher |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780547577678 |
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A provocative new life restoring Agassiz--America's most famous natural scientist of the 19th century, inventor of the Ice Age, stubborn anti-Darwinist--to his glorious, troubling place in science and culture.
Constructing the Universe
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Author | : David Layzer |
Publsiher | : W H Freeman & Company |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Cosmology. |
ISBN | : 0716750031 |
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Traces the history of theories about the nature of the universe, looks at the contributions of scientists from Copernicus to Einstein, and summarizes current theories of cosmic evolution
Best of the Brain from Scientific American
Author | : Floyd E. Bloom |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : UOM:39015068800781 |
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Science Mart
Author | : Philip Mirowski |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2011-04-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674061132 |
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This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II. Science-Mart attributes this decline to a powerful neoliberal ideology in the 1980s which saw the fruits of scientific investigation as commodities that could be monetized, rather than as a public good.